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Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana

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  • Cheryl L Ames, Anna Klompen et al. describe cassiosomes, stinging cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana. They show that these motile cell masses consist of an outer epithelial layer largely composed of nematocytes surrounding centralized clusters of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates.

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  • 2020

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